Running with Lions

"Tells a powerful story." -Denver Post

"A perceptive psychological exploration of the impact of racism and colonization." -Donna Bryson, author of It's a Black-White Thing and Home of the Brave

As a boy in colonial Kenya, Pius Kamau learns early what it means to run with lions-both the metaphorical powers that stalk his people and the real leopard he encounters alone in the forest, the first of many times he will stand eye-to-eye with death.

Born under British rule and hardened by the unspeaka...